Happy Birthday to the legendary Kendrick Lamar, who turns 39 today 🔥🎈
▫️27x GRAMMY award winner
▫️56B+ Spotify streams
▫️Five #1 albums on Billboard
▫️Six #1 songs on Billboard
▫️Every album has 1B+ streams on Spotify
▫️Rapper with the most weeks spent at #1 in the 2020s
▫️Most critically acclaimed rapper of all time
▫️Performed the highest grossing hip hop tour in history
▫️Released the longest charting rap album of all time
▫️Performed the most watched Super Bowl Halftime show in history
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@Hit_Boy The potion is always found in the poison, so that hurt is just beneficial growth. Like Jung said, “God enters through the wound”. As much as it hurts, much better to sit alone with God than be surrounded by people not on your level.
On this day in 1958, music icon Prince was born. ☔️
This guitar is shaped like Prince’s famous “Love Symbol,” a glyph he created to express artistic freedom and identity. Fusing the astrological symbols for Mars and Venus, it reflects the blending of masculine and feminine elements that became central to his image and artistry.
The instrument echoes the opening lyrics of the musician’s “I Would Die 4 U” (1984): “I’m not a woman, I’m not a man / I am something that you’ll never understand.”
📣 Now open! See "Musical Bodies," the first major exhibition to explore the relationship between musical instruments and the body by bringing together over 130 instruments, paintings, sculptures, drawings, and more.
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🎸 "Symbol Guitar," Late 1990's-Early 2000's. Wood, metal, plastic. Collection of Tavis Smiley. Photo: Eileen Travell.
@iamstillpunch All human emotion and behaviors are just reflections and projections. We recognize patterns everywhere and if we are being honest, it’s all just a collective consciousness of God anyways. When we learn how to stop our emotions from controlling us, then we are free.
@relientkenny This better be the new wave. Fuck algorithms and fuck album rollouts. THIS makes it fresh, exciting and the focus is directly on the artist and the music.
Small fish in small ponds only pay attention to the present. If you really want to notice patterns and parallels to help your future, you have to study the past.
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
- Mark Twain